Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:53:43 -0700 From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC3000/400 SRM bootp overview Message-ID: <871zb15ztk.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> In-Reply-To: Wilko Bulte's message of Mon, 11 Oct 1999 23:18:17 %2B0200 (CEST) References: <199910112118.XAA43196@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> writes: > I just noticed that SRM 6.0 had a timeout problem when booting > from my Aspen Alpine (EB64+) whereas the same SRM 6.0 worked OK > booting from my K6-2 box. This leads me to the suspicion that there > is something *very* timing critical (or something close to that) on > the later SRM revs. the symptom that i noticed when looking into it was that using tcpdump to watch the packets that were coming out of the alpha would show packets with bad checksums. (I forget whether they were the bootp or tftp requests, or whether the bad checksums were the IP or UDP checksums... It's been a few years... 8-) > Chris, as I understand it you had NetBSD booting using bootp from SRM. > Or did you use MOP maybe? IIRC NetBSD can do MOP boot serving. bootp. cgd -- Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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